Rock of Ages
After a heavy thunderstorm, a small pond grants a mirror reflection of a hiker at the Wave, the most famous landform in Vermilion Cliffs National Monument in Arizona and Utah."

12-05-2015 04:42 PM

JMdelpotro6

Re: Beautiful places & moments around the world

Areas in England

I think people take for granted the beauty of there own country, that's definitely the case over here anyway.

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12-05-2015 04:35 PM

JMdelpotro6

Re: Beautiful places & moments around the world

Tenerife?

12-05-2015 04:28 PM

JayR

Re: Beautiful places & moments around the world

Magaluf? Ibiza?

12-05-2015 02:10 PM

RForehand

Re: Beautiful places & moments around the world

Still the same Island

12-05-2015 01:34 PM

RForehand

Re: Beautiful places & moments around the world

Time to bump this thread
My photos from my favourite island
This island has a mediocre image, according to some, it's a place where you can only get drunk in rundown tourist ghettos.
Can you guess the name of the island?

Though I did come up with a new beautiful place which I don't think has been posted here already:

Ilha de Queimada Grande, a 110-acre Island off the coast of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Also known as "Snake Island", as it's inhabited by thousands of venemous Golden Lancehead Vipers. Experts say they're 5 times more venemous than the regular Lancehead Vipers on the mainland, but nobody bitten by one of these snakes has lived long enough afterwards to make it back to the mainland.

Only the Brazilian Navy and Scientists with a permit are allowed to visit the island. The Brazilian Navy do maintenance work on the automated Lighthouse near the top of the place once a year or so. Legend has it the former lighthouse keeper was chased out of the place by snakes (along with his family), and they were bitten and killed by snakes as they ran through the forest. That's why it's automated now.

Nobody knows exactly how many snakes live on the island, some say it's 1 per sq. metre (which would make it around 400,000), others say some parts contain up to 5 snakes per sq. metre. More conservative estimates put the figure around 1,500 - 4000. The snakes eat insects, cockroaches, small lizards and their favourite delicacy are the migrating birds who use the place as a stop-over.